Initiatives

Initiatives

St. Tammany Parish Government works every day to enrich the lives of our residents thorugh iniitiatives that touch on every aspect of everyday life here in St. Tammany. Quality of life, recreation, preservation and conservation, community support, public health and economic development.

Upon implementation, this plan will take a focused, systematic approach to making Capital Road Improvements. This is a visionary plan that includes improvements of existing roadways, and the design and creation of future roads to ultimately increase capacity, traffic flow and safety.

These new devlopment standards will incorporate changes to the ordinances to create a streamlined, organized development process and improve regulations in several areas including, building code, drainage and flood control, health and santiation and zoning. In establishing these standards, every structure built in St. Tammany will reflect well thought out parameters to encourage, maintain and institute a unique and indentifiable image for residential and commercial development in our community.

St. Tammany Parish Government, under the leadership of Parish President Pat Brister, works hard every day to improve this Parish's infrastructure. The Parish continues to make improving our roads and drainage a top priority, year in and year out. The map on this page is a graphical depiction of what's happening now, and as projects get completed and as infrastructure is improved, the map will be updated with all the great accomplishments our team members achieve.

Safe Haven will serve as a comprehensive multi- faceted program and a single point of entry into the BH continuum of care for law enforcement, the judiciary and local area hospitals. Safe Haven will provide a collaborative healing environment for the behavioral health continuum by creating a high-quality, coordinated, sustainable and humane network of care anchored in St. Tammany Parish.

To engage every citizen in the protection, cultivation, and preservation of the inherent beauty of St. Tammany Parish in order to maintain and enrich our quality of life, while strengthening the fabric of our Parish through collaborative partnerships, outreach, education, responsibility and community service.

Camp Salmen is open to the public Wednesday through Sunday, year-round. Within miles of nature trails, visitors can observe animals such as deer, migratory and residential birds, and numerous reptiles. Lush and abundant plant life offers the curious, budding ecologist, an outdoor classroom.

The St. tammany Fishing Pier, located at 54001 E. Howze Beach Road near Slidell, is just one of the many places we love to gather for a day of recreation, to sight-see or to just sit back and relax. We look forward to having generations of families enjoy the pier for many years to come.

Originally a corridor for the Illinois Central Railroad, the Trace now is an earth-friendly hike and bike trail stretching from downtown Covington, through Abita Springs, Mandeville and Lacombe and ending in Slidell. Our diverse community is connected by the Trace and our bountiful heritage that makes us uniquely the Northshore.